Upright or folding bed



(N0 Modell) D. J. POWERS.

UPRIGHT OR FOLDING BED.

No. 398,747. Patented Feb. 26, 18

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID J. POWERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FNION \VIRE MATTRESS ((HIIANY, OF ILLINOIS.

U PRIGHT OR FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,747, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed July 3, 1.887. Serial No. 243,74". (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: being merely secured in pockets that enable Be it known that I, DAVID J. POWERS, a eitithem to be readily withdrawn with section B. zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Thus sections A and 13 can be readily conin the county of Cook and State of Illinois, neeted and disconnected, as found desirable, 5 5 have invented certain new and useful Imin moving, cleaning, &e.,without the use of provements in Upright or Folding Beds, which toolsan important desidera-tum in such I. desire to protect by Letters Patent of the heavy structures. United States, an d of which the following .is Itis desirable and a preferable construction, a specification. as affording easier action, that the swinging 10 My improvement consists in certain devices or movable part of the bed be so pivotally confor connecting the stationary and unfolding nectcd with the stationary section that the reportions of this class of beds. straintwhich prevents the former from sepa- Figure 1 of the drawings shows thebed unrating or fallin glforward from the latter in the folded ready for use. Fig. 2 shows it folded direction of its length when extended shall 15 up. Fig. 3 is a back view of the bed. Fig. -l depend upon anti friction against guides or is a top view of back, with sections of the stacams. 'lothe end above namedI employ arms tionary portion A, showing vertical grooves b 1), that are freely supported in pockets near and the rollers that guide the back up and the lower part of the stationary portion and down. fliig. also shows the same enlarged. within its dimensions. The upper ends of 20 Fig. t3 shows a roller-guide enlarged, the same these arms are attached to the foldingpart of also being seen applied in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. thehed pivoiallyand with such relationthere- 7 shows the detachable back. to that. when said folding part is down they Like letters and figures indicate like parts serve as ln'aces with an outward inclination. both in the drawings and specification. Then as a guide and to retain the movable 2 5 The stationary portion A and folding and section I in position during the operation of unfolding portion l of the bed are made in folding or unfolding, I provide cam-plates X, any usual form and manner; but in connecthaving rear curved faces or sides. On the ing the two sections together I employ suprails of section. B are provided rollers V, portingarms Z1 b, pivoted to the outer side of adapted to engage with the rear face of cam- 3o unfolding section B at their top ends and restplates X and travel against the latter in the ing in pockets a a near the base and inner folding or unfolding movements. The cams side of the stationary section A, as shown in X are provided at thetop and bottom with de- Figsl and2in both their folded and unfolded pressions or ogee curves, into the upper of positions. which the rollers seat themselves when section 3 5 T o the rear end of section 1-; is hinged the B is down,and when the latter is up the rollers sliding back K, adapted to move freely up and are seated in the lower curves. This operates down, being guided by rollers L in grooves M to partially secure section B in either posiof section A at its top portion, and by its contion, and yet is not so rigid but what a little nection with the head end of section B, and so force exerted at either point will disengage it,

40 adapted that it can freely follow the said secthus making a very simple and convenient tion B from its position as seen in Fig. l. to locking device for such a bed. the position shown in Fig. *iack I carries I do not design to limit my invention to the the counterbalancirig-weights N, and is pivuse of a sliding weighted back, as the weights oted to thehead of section B, with Slil'l-Ilillg'QS can also be applied directly to the inner ends 45 0, (shown in Fig. 7,) which, when the bed is of the unfolding section of the bed and work unfolded, enables the back to be lifted up, and nactically well, although I prefer the sliding supported by hooks I, engaged upon pins Q weighted back, as shown. upon section A, thus separating the back K Ilz'n'ingthus described my invention,whatI from section B, after which section B can be claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters I00 50 readily removed from section A by raising Patent, is

rollers V above the guide-cams X, the arms b 1. In a folding bed, curved cams or plates Vertically placed and facing to the rear on the stationary section of the bed, rollers, attached to the sides of and near the inner end of the movable section adapted to engage with and travel against the rear faces of the cams, and arms that are pivoted to the folded section of the bed as a support for the latter, which are movabl y supported at or near the lower portion of the stationary section, so that when the bed is unfolded said arms in cliue outwardly and when the bed is folded their position Vertical, or approximately so.

2. In a folding bed, a' movable section and 

